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>Could the same be accomplished with a static character
>buffer on the C stack and strcat()?

Yes, it could and was done like that until recently.
However, the static buffer implies a large stack consumption that generates
problems in programs with many nested dofiles. Some people running Lua in
small systems complained about this.
--lhf